2019
SEP
18
Wednesday, Sep 18, 2019, 12:00pm - Wednesday, Sep 18, 2019, 02:00pm
Location
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
RADCLIFFE INSTITUTE LECTURE
Lecture by Camara Phyllis Jones, a family physician and epidemiologist whose work focuses on naming, measuring, and addressing the impacts of racism on the health and well-being of the nation. She is a past president of the American Public Health Association, a senior fellow at the Morehouse School of Medicine, and an adjunct professor at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. She is also the 2019-2020 Evelyn Green Davis Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute.
Racism is a system of structuring opportunity and assigning value based on the social interpretation of how one looks (which is what we call “race”), which unfairly disadvantages some individuals and communities, unfairly advantages other individuals and communities, and saps the strength of the whole society through the waste of human resources.
In this talk, Jones will describe the tools she is developing to inspire, equip, and engage all Americans in a national campaign against racism. For example, her allegories on “race” and racism illuminate topics that are otherwise difficult for many Americans to understand or discuss. Her toolbox will equip both children and adults to name racism, ask “How is racism operating here?” and organize and strategize to act.
Jones earned her BA in molecular biology from Wellesley College, her MD from the Stanford School of Medicine, and both her master of public health and her PhD in epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. She also completed residency training in general preventive medicine at Johns Hopkins and in family medicine at the Residency Program in Social Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center.
To learn more about this event and others, visit www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2019-camara-phyllis-jones-fellow-present...
The event is free and open to the public. We encourage you to share this invitation with people you know who may be interested.
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University is dedicated to creating and sharing transformative ideas across the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Learn more about the people and programs of the Radcliffe Institute at www.radcliffe.harvard.edu.
OFFICE OF DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
677 Huntington Avenue | Boston, MA 02215
T: 617-432-9322
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/diversity/
Lecture by Camara Phyllis Jones, a family physician and epidemiologist whose work focuses on naming, measuring, and addressing the impacts of racism on the health and well-being of the nation. She is a past president of the American Public Health Association, a senior fellow at the Morehouse School of Medicine, and an adjunct professor at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. She is also the 2019-2020 Evelyn Green Davis Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute.
Racism is a system of structuring opportunity and assigning value based on the social interpretation of how one looks (which is what we call “race”), which unfairly disadvantages some individuals and communities, unfairly advantages other individuals and communities, and saps the strength of the whole society through the waste of human resources.
In this talk, Jones will describe the tools she is developing to inspire, equip, and engage all Americans in a national campaign against racism. For example, her allegories on “race” and racism illuminate topics that are otherwise difficult for many Americans to understand or discuss. Her toolbox will equip both children and adults to name racism, ask “How is racism operating here?” and organize and strategize to act.
Jones earned her BA in molecular biology from Wellesley College, her MD from the Stanford School of Medicine, and both her master of public health and her PhD in epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. She also completed residency training in general preventive medicine at Johns Hopkins and in family medicine at the Residency Program in Social Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center.
To learn more about this event and others, visit www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2019-camara-phyllis-jones-fellow-present...
The event is free and open to the public. We encourage you to share this invitation with people you know who may be interested.
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University is dedicated to creating and sharing transformative ideas across the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Learn more about the people and programs of the Radcliffe Institute at www.radcliffe.harvard.edu.
OFFICE OF DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
677 Huntington Avenue | Boston, MA 02215
T: 617-432-9322
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/diversity/